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They’re Changing Their World With Eyes Wide Open

  • February 4, 2014
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Seeing is believing—which means that sharing a positive vision with your neighbors can change your world. UAE Goodwill Photographers is putting this insight to good practice by making local photographers conduits of their communities’ realities.

The goal, says the group’s founder Slava Noor, is “to transform society while perfecting its members’ photography skills.” The group welcomes “anyone with a love of photography,” the young and well-established photographer adds, making it “extremely diverse in terms of nationalities and backgrounds,” with photographers from Oman, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, the Ukraine, Hungary, and the Philippines.

Besides covering local cultural events, it multiplies shared connections through photo walks on which photographers meet new neighbors through their lenses, providing “a unique opportunity to meet each other in the offline world and share skills while exploring the city,” Slava explains. It also works with adult special needs students from Mawaheb Art Studio, two of whom took part in the latest photo walk through Al-Khor.

On February 22, the team will cover “Reaching U”, an event dedicated to special-needs children. In her experience, Slava says, “all we really have to give is love and understanding, and simply enjoy spending time together.”

For more info – UAE Goodwill Photographers’ website and Facebook page

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Jennifer MacKenzie

Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.

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